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    Giric mac Dúngail (Modern Gaelic: Griogair mac Dhunghail; fl. c. 878–889), in modern English his name is Gregory or Greg MacDougal and nicknamed Mac Rath...
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  • refer to him as Giric son of Kenneth son of Dub, which is taken to be an error. An alternate explanation is that Kenneth had a son, Giric, who ruled jointly...
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    Prophecy of Berchán. Donald became king on the death or deposition of Giric (Giric mac Dúngail), the date of which is not certainly known but usually placed...
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  • ousted in 878, when Constantine I's brother, Áed mac Cináeda, was killed by Giric mac Dúngail, but they returned in 889, when Constantine I's son Donald II...
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  • entirely lost, but it has been assumed that, like the laws attributed to Giric and Constantine II (Causantín mac Áeda), these related to the church and...
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  • Gaelic words have not been translated into Latin. By the 12th century, Giric had acquired legendary status as liberator of the Scottish church from Pictish...
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    Scotland. This says that Áed reigned one year and was killed by his successor Giric in Strathallan and other king lists have the same report. It is uncertain...
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  • Giric, if he is the Gregorius of Walter Bower, is the eleventh alleged Bishop of St Andrews. This Gregorius is mentioned in the bishop-list of Walter...
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    Cináed's son, Áed, in 878. According to various sources, Áed was slain by Giric, whose ancestry is uncertain and who then proceeded to usurp the Alban throne...
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    who is somehow connected with Giric, but all other lists say that Giric ruled after Áed and make great claims for him. Giric is not known to have been a...
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    He may have never actually been king and if he was, he was co-king with Giric. ¤Amlaíb is known only by a reference to his death in 977, which reports...
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  • Lady Chapel Westminster Abbey website (accessed 20 June 2007) Eochaid & Giric Undiscovered Scotland (accessed 20 June 2007) Ross, David R (2003). Passion...
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    Cadell. King Áed I of Scotland is killed in battle, by his rival Giric mac Dúngal. Giric becomes king of the Picts, and allies himself with Eochaid (grandson...
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    saints, in Llanilid, but named as St. Ilid and St. Curig. The cult of "St. Giric" was formerly much more widespread in Celtic Britain, however. His feast...
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  • Details of the kings prior to Malcolm III are sparse, and the status of two – Giric and Eochaid – dubious; details of their wives are almost non-existent. Thus...
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    301 days Malcolm IV 24 May 1153 9 December 1165 4,582 12 years, 199 days Giric (co-ruler with Eochaid?) 878 889 c. 4.000 c. 11 years Donald II 889 900...
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    title of "Archbishop" is accorded in Scottish and Irish sources to Bishop Giric and Bishop Fothad II. The problem was that this archepiscopal status had...
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  • of Wessex Alfred the Great 849–899 King of the Anglo-Saxons r. 871–899 Giric c. 832–889 King of the Picts r. 878–889 Constantín I mac Cináeda d. 877...
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  •  858–862 Kenneth I MacAlpin King of the Picts 810–858/859 r. 841/843–858/859 Giric King of the Picts c. 832–889 r. 878–889 Constantín I mac Cináeda King of...
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  • or Constantine I (II), King (862–877) Áed mac Cináeda, King (877–878) Giric, King (878–889) Eochaid, disputed King (c.878–889) Donald II, King (889–900)...
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  • (born 1992), Austrian association football player Mac Rath, nickname of Giric (c.832–889), king of the Picts or of Alba Marcel Rath (born 1975), German...
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    was temporarily lost after the first conquest of 878. Kings Eochaid and Giric of Alba and Strathclyde (modern Scotland) are deposed by Viking invaders...
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    Arthgal, and maternal grandson of Cináed Associated with Giric. Could have shared kingship with Giric, either as an equal partner or adversary. Could have...
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  • Indulf Indulf (I) of Scotland 962 Eochaid Eochaid (I) of Scotland 889 Giric Giric (I) of Scotland 889 Áed Áed (I) of Scotland 878 Foundation of Scotland...
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  • House of Alpin (Scotland) unknown 877–878 878 Killed by his successor, Giric Edmund I West Saxons (England) c. 921 939–946 26 May 946 Murdered at a party...
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  • Religious titles Preceded by Giric or Cathróe Bishop of Cell Rígmonaid (Saint Andrews) 1107–1115 Succeeded by Eadmer...
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    812-862 Iona King Constantine I ?-877 Iona King Áed bef. 858–878 Iona King Giric ?-892 Iona? King Donald II ?-900 Iona King Constantine II bef. 879–952 Iona...
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    the native Britons in 890 for Giric mac Dúngail (Modern Gaelic: Griogair mac Dhunghail, known in English simply as Giric and nicknamed Mac Rath ("Son of...
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    the feasts of St Patrick (Gwyl Badric) on 17 March; St. Quiricus (Gwyl Giric) on 16 June; the Beheading of John the Baptist (called in Welsh Gwyl Ieuan...
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  • the 1885 earldom of Fife and the 1889 dukedom of Fife, became extinct. ? Giric mac Cináeda meic Duib ? Macduib (= Shakespeare's MacDuff) (fl. 1057–1058)...
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